The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: A Conference to Honor the Work of Malcolm M. Feeley
October 22-23, 2015
Organized and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS)
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean, Berkeley Law; the Division of Social Sciences; the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program; the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies; the Sho Sato Program in Japanese and US Law; and the Institute for Legal Research
The scholarship of Malcolm Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Professor of Law, was honored in a two-day program, which included many of his colleagues, students, and co-authors from Berkeley and around the world.
THE EXPERIENCE OF VETERANS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
February 3, 2010
Co-sponsored with the Jefferson Lectures Series
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The Institute for Legal Research organized a forum on “The Experience of Veterans in American Society” as an informal follow-up to the February 2nd Jefferson Lecture by historian James Wright, president emeritus of Dartmouth College. The forum featured speakers with past and current military experience and from the fields of law, history, political science, and medicine.
Moderator: Prof. Harry Scheiber, Berkeley Law
Opening reflections:
• Prof. Richard Abrams, History, UC Berkeley
• RADM Harold Robinson, CHC, USN (Ret.), Jewish Chaplains Council
• Prof. T.J. Pempel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
• Jan Scruggs, Esq., Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Panelists:
• President Emeritus James Wright, Dartmouth College
• Dr. Michael Ascher, Institute of Medicine’s Board of Military and Veterans Health
• Prof. Lloyd Burton, Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver
• Prof. Richard Cándida-Smith, History, UC Berkeley
• Col. Rocky Chavez (USMC, Ret.), California Department of Veterans Affairs
• Prof. Todd La Porte, Political Science, UC Berkeley
• Lt. Col. Leland Liebe (US Army), ROTC, UC Berkeley
• Prof. Melissa Murray, Berkeley Law
• Prof. Gordon Silverstein, Political Science, UC Berkeley
• Lt. Col. Brian Stone (USAF), ROTC, UC Berkeley
CONSTITUTION DAY EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 15 AND 17, 2009
The Institute for Legal Research organized two events in connection with Constitution Day (September 17), the national celebration of the signing of the US Constitution.
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CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES: THE CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS TIMES
September 15, 2009
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Law and Society
This colloquium featured talks on the “Constitutional Crisis in Birmingham: The Civil Rights Movement and Beyond,” by Willoughby Anderson, Law Clerk, Chambers of Senior Judge John T. Nixon, US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee; and “Martial Law and Military Courts: Hawaii in World War II,” presented by Harry N. Scheiber, Professor of Law, and Jane Scheiber, Asst. Dean (Ret.) of Chemistry and CSLS Research Associate, UC Berkeley. Professors Goodwin Liu and Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley, provided commentary for the event.
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TECHNOLOGY, DEMOCRACY, AND THE LAW
September 17, 2009
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Co-sponsored with the Jefferson Lecture Series
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This forum featured a talk by Professor Steven Usselman of the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Usselman specializes in the history of technology and American political economy. His book, Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Hilton Prize in railroad history. He also served as the president of the Society for the History of Technology from 2007-2008.
Commentators included Professor Robert Merges, Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley, and Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.
COURTS, POLITICS, AND THE MEDIA
September 16, 2008
[COPY OF PROGRAM] [BERKELEYAN ARTICLE]
This forum on the interplay of courts, politics, and the media showcased several nationally prominent journalists, including Linda Greenhouse, formerly of the New York Times, where she served for 30 years as the nation’s foremost reporter covering the US Supreme Court. Other speakers included Judge William A. Fletcher of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and member of the UC Berkeley faculty; Emily Bazelon, a legal writer for Slate.com; Henry Weinstein, legal reporter and analyst for the Los Angeles Times until his recent retirement; and Gordon Silverstein, a professor in UC Berkeley’s Political Science Department. The forum also featured a panel of specialists, including Berkeley Law professors Goodwin Liu and Jesse H. Choper, and Molly Selvin, a legal historian and former reporter and editorial staff member on the LA Times, who is interim dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
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(L-R) Linda Greenhouse, Judge William Fletcher, Emily Bazelon, and Henry Weinstein
(photo by Jim Block)
LAW, WAR, AND HISTORY
February 16-17, 2007
Co-sponsored with the William Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Scholars from England, Israel, Japan, and the United States met at Boalt Hall to deliver and discuss papers at a symposium on “Law, War, and History.” Presentations from the conference were published in 2008 as a special issue of the Law and History Review, the official journal of the American Society for Legal History, and includes revised conference papers on international law from ancient to modern times.
Governing and Living in a Time of Terror: Law Beyond 9/11
September 8-9, 2006
Co-sponsored with the School of Law’s Office of the Dean
Boalt presents Governing and Living in a Time of Terror: Law Beyond 9/11, a unique conference for our faculty, alumni, staff and students along with UC Berkeley faculty. The event, organized by Professor David Caron and David Kaye (’95), inaugurates a long-term research initiative on areas of law and policy influenced by the September 11 attacks.
EARL WARREN AND THE WARREN COURT: A FIFTY-YEAR RETROSPECT
February 27-28, 2004
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This conference commemorated the constitutional legacy of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and the Warren Court (and marked the fiftieth-year anniversary of the Warren Court’s initial term). Several of the lectures dealt with the impact of the Warren Court on legal development in Europe, Asia, and the Americas; others treated the Court’s legacy in US law in major areas such as criminal justice, freedom of speech, equal protection, and desegregation. The proceedings from the conference, Earl Warren and the Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law (edited by Harry N. Scheiber), were published by Lexington Books.
The conference dinner featured speeches by UC Berkeley Chancellor Emeritus Robert M. Berdahl and four former Warren Court clerks: Professor Jesse H. Choper, UC Berkeley; Chancellor Emeritus Ira Michael Heyman, UC Berkeley; Professor Scott Bice, University of Southern California; and Hon. James R. Browning, US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit.
To read Chancellor Berdahl’s talk, click here. To read Judge Browning’s remarks, click here.
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Chancellor Emeritus Robert Berdahl and Judge James Browning
(photo by Jim Block)